Fuga de Cerebros

Last Thursday I went with two other ISU students to the mall to see the movie Fuga de Cerebros, recommended by a professor so we would see some of the youth culture. It was 1€ (a dollar movie. They even have 1euro stores here just like we have dollar stores.) We got our tickets early, which was good, since the theatre sold out half an hour before the movie started. One thing we happened to notice while we got our tickets was a sign saying "recommended for persons 18 and older" (well okay, so the sign was actually in Spanish). However, we seemed to be three of only a handful of viewers who fit that profile. Apparently here in Spain you can go see this stuff at age 12 and 13 without an adult escort, and yet noone stops you to prevent you from being scarred for life (i.e. the sex scenes and sexual connotations are not censored or shortened or leave much to the imagination here).

The movie was, by the way, hilarious. I would equate it to something like Euro Trip and Road Trip. Essentially this geeky Spanish guy has been in love with his beautiful classmate for the past 13 years. And when she gets accepted to Oxford (geography fact: Oxford is in England), his four buddies forge his way in, too. These five guys get into all sorts of trouble while pursuing girls. The parts at Oxford that were in English had subtitles in the theater - we laughed! Most of the movie is in Spanish though, and because of the fast speech and slang we didn't understand it all. But for the most part the images told everything.